Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Born in 1730, Antonio Sacchini was a full generation older than Mozart, but his sacred drama written for Lent in...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
Founded in 2005, Mathieu Romano’s 17-strong Ensemble Aedes are vocal shapeshifters, slipping seamlessly from opera chorus to chamber choir. French...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
Handel was not the only musical visitor at Cannons, the country estate of James Brydges (the Earl of Carnarvon, later...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024
‘Exsultate jubilate!’ was also the title of a recording by Carolyn Sampson in 2006. Her disc, an Editor’s Choice that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
Two well-known cantatas composed in Italy and another devised about a decade later in England are interspersed with the Trio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2024
Like the better-known André Campra, Jean Gilles (1668-1705) was a native of Provence. But unlike his older contemporary, Gilles never...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024
Preceded by a pair of highly acclaimed concert performances in Bergen’s Grieg Hall, Mark Elder’s new traversal of Delius’s A...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2024
Devised during Britten’s perilous ocean voyage back to the UK from North America in 1942, A Ceremony of Carols comprises...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2024
Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus (1923) and Bartók’s Cantata profana (1930) have appeared together on disc twice before, I believe – by...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
This sympathetic collection brings together songs with devotional texts, some of which derive from Bach with certainty (included in the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2024
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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